As Garrett Richards stood on the mound in Minute Maid Park and prepared to deliver his first pitch of the season Sunday, he did not flash back to that ugly August night in Fenway Park, when he blew out his left knee, or to any point during the eight months of grueling rehabilitation it took to get here.

Hoag Orthopedic Institute in Irvine was the only Orange County hospital to receive the maximum five stars, as the federal government this week unveiled a new quarterly ratings system to make it easier for patients to select hospitals.

Anaheim (Calif.) Servite linebacker Jack Savage is a top ten middle linebacker out West in the class of 2015. But a shoulder injury his junior year, which required off-season surgery, slowed down his recruitment.

Even though a recent study found readmission rates are not an adequate indicator of a hospital's overall performance, hospitals in the U.S. are still prompted to reduce readmission rates or be penalized by Medicare under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.